This is a summary of traffic on the python-dev mailing list between
Apr 12 and Apr 25 (inclusive) 2001. It is intended to inform the
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PEP if you have an opinion.
This is the sixth summary written by Michael Hudson.
Summaries are archived at:
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Posting distribution (with apologies to mbm)
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* Python 2.1 is released! *
After Tim found a bug of staggering subtlety in the dict code:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014272.html>
And Guido released a release candidate or two:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014205.html>
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014290.html>
Python 2.1 was unleashed on the world:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014298.html>
which has already been incorporated into the cygwin distribution:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014311.html>
* Iterators *
Guido asked whether we thought he should check his prototype iterator
implementation into the main trunk:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014353.html>
After everyone said "yes!", he did so, so you can play around with
iterators if you build a Python from CVS. Discussion of this feature
is going on the python-iterators list at sourceforge:
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-iterators>
* Class methods *
Thomas Heller posted another plea for class methods to be included in
some future version of Python:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014365.html>
Discussion wandered around a bit, drifting onto metaclasses and some
tantalizing hints of Guido's plans for attacking the dreaded
type/class split in Python 2.2.
* Suirprise! *
Tim Peters posted a surprising consequence of how Python handles
chained comparisons:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-April/014399.html>
This may elicit a warning from the compiler in 2.2...
Cheers,
M.
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